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Past Lectures

Integrated silicon and quantum photonics with on-chip light sources

Dr. Yating Wan, Assistant Professor,
KAUST

Dr. Chen Shang, Research Fellow,
University of California, Santa Barbara

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

(CANCELED) Discrete Optimization for Adversarial Attacks on Large Language Models

Zico Kolter, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

Control Seminar

Resilience in State Estimation and System Identification

Laurent Bako, Visiting Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Electrical, Computer & Robotics Engineering

Communications and Signal Processing Seminar

Rethinking the theoretical foundation of reinforcement learning

Nan Jiang, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar

CUOS Noon Seminar: Spin Polarization, Plasma Density Gradient, Electron Injection, Two color X-ray, and Pizza!

CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar

CUOS Noon Seminar: Colliding Plasma Plumes, MeV proton beams, Positron Beams, and Pizza!

Joshua Latham, NERS GSRA; Stephen DiIorio, Physics GSRA; Jason Cardarelli, NERS GSRA

Engineering Phonon Polaritons in van der Waals Materials

Mingyuan Chen, PhD Candidate, Auburn University

Practice in Flux: Learning from Engineers at Work

Brent Jesiek, Professor, School of Engineering Education, Purdue University

Distinguished Lecture | Student Event

A Recent History of Integrated Circuits: Bottlenecks and Breakthroughs

Dennis Sylvester, Edward S. Davidson Collegiate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Challenges and Opportunities in High-frequency Power Electronics for Emerging Applications

Jungwon Choi, Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

CUOS Seminar | Optics Seminar

CUOS Noon Seminar: QED laser-plasma, Relativistic laser perturbation, and Laser Pulses in the Bubble Regime

Qian Qian, Joshua Latham, and Nick Ernst, Graduate Student Research Assistants

Challenges in Circuit-Device Interaction of Compute-in-Memory for AI Chips

Dr. Meng-Fan (Marvin) Chang, IEEE Fellow, Director, Corporate Research of TSMC

Challenges and opportunities in automotive power electronics

Peeking Inside Black Boxes: Understanding Depression Recovery with Deep Brain Stimulation Using Explainable AI

Christopher Rozell, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Wireless Beams for Sustainable and Responsive Infrastructures

Aline Eid, Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Towards Network-Accelerator Co-Search for Promoting Ubiquitous on-Device Intelligence and Green AI

Yingyan Lin, Assistant Professor, Rice University

Radiating systems in the near and far field for next generation wireless links: key innovations and novel paradigms

Mauro Ettorre, CNRS Research Scientist, CNRS

Nonlinear optics in quantum materials

Yang Zhang, Senior Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The role of experience replay in planning and non-local learning

Marcelo G Mattar, Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego

Extreme electromagnetics: analog computation, topological protection, and nonreciprocity

Dimitrios Sounas, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University

Embracing Low Inertia in Power System Frequency Control: A Frequency Shaping Approach

Enrique Mallada, Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University

Nonlinear Topological Photonics

Mikael Rechtsman, Associate Professor, The Pennsylvania State University

Understanding Overparameterization through Feature Covariance and High-dimensional Analysis

Samet Oymak, Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside

Empowering the Next Billion Devices with Deep Learning

Mi Zhang, Associate Professor, Michigan State University

Inverse Graphics for Next-Gen Video Communication

Soumyadip Sengupta, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Washington, Seattle

Robust and Adaptive Online Decision Making

Chen-Yu Wei, Ph.D. Student, University of Southern California

Randomized Methods for Data Discovery and Decomposition

Hayden Schaeffer, Associate Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Embedded Intelligence Towards Smarter and Healthier Environments

Stephen Xia, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University

Standalone stretchable device platform for human health monitoring

Huanyu “Larry” Cheng, Assistant Professor, Penn State University

Power-system Modeling & Control for the Era of Inverter-based Resources

Sairaj Dhople, Associate Professor, University of Minnesota

Power Electronics Meet Piezoelectrics: Unlocking a New Era of Scalability

Jessica Boles, Ph.D. Candidate and Collamore-Rogers Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Engineering Nanophotonic Interfaces to Control Plasmons and Spins

Laura Kim, IC Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Quantum Information Science and Engineering: Beating the Classical Limits with Entanglement

Zheshen Zhang, Assistant Professor, University of Arizona

Efficient and Safe Integration Between Learning and Control in Physical Systems

Yingying Li, Postdoc Researcher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Closed-Loop Data Transcription via Rate Reduction

Yi Ma, Professor, University of California, Berkeley

Distributed Learning, Control, and Inference in Large-Scale Systems.

Aritra Mitra, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania

Topology-Driven Learning for Biomedicine and Beyond

Chao Chen, Assistant Professor , Stony Brook University

Emergent Molecular Properties in the Strong Light-Matter Coupling Regime

Chris Giebink, Associate Professor, The Pennsylvania State University

Distinguished Lecture | ECE Distinguished Seminar Series

Rethinking General Anesthesia

Dr. Emery Brown, Edward Hood Taplin Professor of Medical Engineering and of Computational Neuroscience, MIT

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Advancing Quantum Science with Ytterbium Atom Arrays

Alexander Burgers, Postdoctoral Scholar, Princeton

Faculty Candidate Seminar

Emerging Optics from Structured Nanomaterials

Danqing Wang , Miller Research Fellow , University of California, Berkeley

Deep-Generative Hybrid Learning as a New Window into Brain Dysfunction

Archana Venkataraman , John C. Malone Assistant Professor , Johns Hopkins University

President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Prospective Candidate

President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program Prospective Candidate

Lucas Buccafusca, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Mechanical Properties of Small Scale and Soft Biological Materials

Arvind Agarwal, Distinguished University Professor , Florida International University

Silicon Micro-Machines for Fun and Profit

David J. Bishop, Professor, Director of CELL-MET ERC, Boston University

Going Towards 6G

Robert Heath, Cockrell Regents Endowed Chair in Engineering #7, The University of Texas at Austin

POSTPONED: Real World Perspectives: Conversations of Leadership and Diversity in Engineering

Energy Efficient Future Wireless Communications

Nuno Borges Carvalho, Professor and IEEE MTT-S Distinguished Microwave Lecturer, University of Aveiro

Nanoscale Devices based on Two-dimensional Materials and Ferroelectric Materials

Dr. Wenjuan Zhu, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois

Fabrication of advanced 2D and 3D nano-devices using NanoFrazor lithography

Emine Cagin, Principal Applications Engineer, SwissLitho AG

Integrated quantum photonics with single emitters

Marcelo Davanco, Research Scientist, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Studies of PCET in Natural and Artificial Photosynthesis

Victor Batista, Professor, Yale University

Information: Storage, Processing, Transmission and Learning: A Symposium in honor of David L. Neuhoff

Event: 2D Devices and Systems for Energy-Efficient Sensing and Computing

Rui Yang, Assistant Professor, Univ. of Michigan "“ Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute; Shanghai Jiao Tong University

ECE Safety and Coffee

Characterization, modeling, and design of N-polar GaN devices for mm-wave power

ECE Safety & Coffee

CPT Information Session

John Prescott, International Student & Scholar Advisor, UM International Center

EER – Talking about Teaching

High efficiency c-Si solar cells with ultrathin SiOx tunneling passivation and polycrystalline-Si contact

Dr. Baojie Yan , Professor & Senior Scientist, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science

EER – Talking about Teaching

ECE Innovator Program: Presentations and Reception

Innovator Program: How to Efficiently Build Your Lab Innovation to a Working Prototype

Joe Heanue, Founder and President, Triple Ring Technologies

Innovator Program: How Do License Your Intellectual Property From University of Michigan

Bryce Pilz, Director of Licensing, U-M Office Tech Transfer

Innovator Program: How to Identify the Market Opportunity and Target Customer

Jonathan Fay, U-M Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and former CTO of EarLens Corp.

Hypothesis testing perspectives on generative adversarial networks and differential privacy

Sewoong Oh, Assistant Professor of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Theory and algorithms for optimization-based control on networks

Ye Pu, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley

Modern Methods for Neural Signal Processing

Adam Charles, Postdoctoral Associate, Princeton Neuroscience Institute

Imaging the Invisible

Katherine Bouman, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Data Science for Networks: a Graph Signal Processing Perspective

Satiago Segarra, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for Data, Systems, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Modern Machine Learning: Theory and Practice

Soheil Feizi, Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Stanford University

Robust and Secure Control of Cyber-Physical Systems

Mohammad Naghnaeian, Postdoctoral Associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Delay Bounds and Asymptotics in Cloud Computing Systems

Weina Wang, Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Monitoring and Control for the Internet-of-Things: Resource and Security Challenges

Konstantinos Gatsis, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Pennsylvania

CPT Information Session

Making sense of the physical world with high-resolution tactile sensing

Wenzhen Yuan, Ph.D. Candidate, MIT

ECE Safety & Coffee

Examining engineering concepts in practice: Is conceptual understanding relevant to practice?

Shane Brown, Associate Professor and Associate Head for Undergraduate Programs, School of Civil and Construction Engineering, Oregon State University

Multiscale Electrophysical Systems to the Rescue

David Garmire, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa

ECE Expedition: Detroit

Towards novel optical imaging techniques with applications in ophthalmology and vision science

Francesco LaRocca, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley School of Optometry

Understanding and Optimizing Solution-Processed Systems

Vanessa Wood, Professor for Materials and Device Engineering, ETH Zurich

Differential Privacy for Dynamic Data

Jerome Le Ny, Assistant Professor, Universite de Montreal

ECE Safety & Coffee

Semiconductor Quantum Technologies for Communications and Computing

Dirk Englund, Assistant Professor, MIT

Light up Computing Systems

Jiang Xu, Associate Professor, Big Data System Lab, ECE Department, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Photonic Topological Insulators

Mordechai (Moti) Segev, Robert J. Shillman Distinguished Professor of Physics, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Information, Decisions and Networks: A workshop in the honor of Demos Teneketzis 65th Birthday

Nanomaterials at Interfaces: Wet Chemical Routes for Size, Shape and Orientation Controlled Nanomaterials

Yuval Golan, Professor , Ben Gurion University

ECE Alumni Reception at IMS

Quantum realism to semiconductor nanoscience

Mackillo Kira, Associate Professor Department of Physics, University of Marburg

Non-doped Phosphorescent Organic LEDs: A New Way to Simplify Device Fabrication

Dr. Qi Wang, post-doctoral candidate, Atom NanoElectronics, Inc.

Reachability and Learning for Hybrid Systems

Claire Tomlin, Charles A. Desoer Chair in the College of Engineering Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer, University of California, Berkeley

Ceremony to Honor Prof. Dave Neuhoff as 2015 Rackham Distinguished Graduate Mentor

Principled and Scalable Methods for Extracting multivariate dependencies in Big Data

Bala Rajaratnam, Faculty, Stanford University

III-Nitride Semiconductor Photonics: Beyond LED Lighting

Zetian Mi, Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar, McGill University

Controls of Vehicle Systems toward Clean, Efficient and Safe Mobility

Junmin Wang, Ph.D., Director, Vehicle Systems and Control Laboratory, Ohio State University

Terahertz: The Last Untapped Spectrum

Ehsan Afshari, Associate Professor, Cornell University

Strategies to Increase Open Circuit Voltage in Organic Photovoltaics

Andrew Bartynski, post-doc candidate, University of Southern California

Enhancement of Infrared Sensing and Imaging

Hooman Mohseni, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northwestern University

Customer Discovery

Viktor Brandtneris, Director of Ann Arbor SPARK's Entrepreneurial Boot Camp, NSF I-Corps Teacher , Brandtneris Consulting

Hiring Opportunities at Ford Motor Company

Dave Messih, Global Brake Controls Algorithm, Software and Vehicle Development , Ford Motor Company

State-of-the-Art Timing References Using MEMS Resonator

Carl Arft, Ph.D., Director, Systems Engineering & Tech Development, SiTime Corporation

Symposium: Mourou@70: From Ultrafast to Extreme Light

Henry Russel Lecture: Great ideas start very small; the challenge is in how to grow them

Fawwaz Ulaby, Emmett Leith Distinguished University Professor of EECS, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Low-Cost Ultrawideband (UWB) Phased Array Antennas Importance, Challenges, and Inroads

Dr. Marinos N. Vouvakis

The Ultimate Scaling Limit – A Deterministic Single Atom Transistor

Gerhard Klimeck, Professor and Director, Network for Computational Nanotechnology, Purdue University

Electromagnetic Models in Active and Passive Microwave Remote Sensing of Snow Water Equivalent and Soil Moisture

Leung Tsang, Professor, U. of Washington, Dept. of Electrical Engineering

Roger T. Howe: Vacuum Nanosystems for Energy Conversion

Roger T. Howe, William E. Ayer Professor, Stanford University

Passive MEMS for Communication and Sensing Applications

Mina Rais-Zadeh, Professor, EECS, University of Michigan

Variable Anisotropy in Wet Alkaline Etching of Si Applied for 3-D Structuring

Prof. Kazuo Sato, Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan, WIMS2 Seminar/Webinar

Ballistic Electro Photonics

Professor Venky Narayanamurti

Integrated Optics in Silicon

Dr. Michael Geis

Wireless Communication Circuits in Nanometer CMOS Technologies

Professor Jeyanandh Paramesh

From Interconnect to Device: Analog Design for Scaled CMOS Electronics

Professor Alyssa Apsel

Light-Structure Interactions: Opto-Excited Mechanical Vibrations

A 14mW Fractional-N PLL Modulator With an Enhanced Digital Phase Detector and Frequency Switching Scheme

USEFUL SIGNALS FOR MOTOR CORTEX

Andrew B. Schwartz, Ph.D.

EE:Systems Graduate Welcome

EE:Systems Faculty

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